Deep in the mountains of Siberia, a shady valley.

"Look at this footprint, this is where the big cat stopped two or three days ago, and it is designated to go in this direction, let's follow it."

Mombato was very excited, lying on his stomach in a hollow place, and said loudly.

Su Ming looked at this scene with a smile, thought it was funny, and said:

"How can you tell if it's a big cat's footprint? Can't it be a black bear? ”

Both are ferocious beasts, and the big cat and the black bear have equally large palms and leave similar footprints.

Of course, this is for ordinary people, they must be stupid and can't tell the difference, and whether they can recognize it or not.

However, for Mombato, a hunter who often goes into the mountains, it can be said to be commonplace, so it is very easy to recognize.

He pointed to the depression and spoke vigorously, and at the same time pointed to the other side, saying the difference between the big cat and the black bear.

The former generally stands on all fours and rarely walks on two feet, but black bears sometimes land on two feet.

And most importantly, there are obviously a few places where there are blueberries that are about to ripen, and it is impossible for the black bear to turn a blind eye.

Unlike big cats, which are purely carnivorous, black bears are omnivores, and they prefer meat and vegetarian food, especially wild blueberries.

Because this is its winter dessert, it is impossible not to eat it.

After listening to Mombato's words, everyone suddenly realized that Nima's still has so much knowledge in it.

The climate of Siberia belongs to deciduous broad-leaved forests and coniferous broad-leaved forests, and September is not autumn, but winter.

The dead branches and leaves on the ground have long since withered and yellowed, and it is estimated that after a while, they will be completely covered with thick snow.

Therefore, animals such as black bears are looking for food to survive the winter.

As for the big cat, it has no fixed place, and broad-leaved forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests are its main areas of activity, and they will often haunt shrubs, mountains and other terrains, which are more conducive to predation.

Big cats usually go out alone to hunt and live, and only during the breeding season will they be with females, can swim, and are good at climbing trees and jumping. They have a very large range of activity, and in order to hunt for food, they can travel up to tens of kilometers per day, and their endurance and survivability are very strong.

Big cats in the wild are very cautious due to their critically endangered numbers and usually come out at night to hunt, so it is difficult to spot them during the day.

According to Mombato, you can only follow the footsteps of the big cat, step by step.

On weekdays, when Mombato hunts, he basically avoids encountering predators such as big cats, black bears, and wild boars.

It's not that I'm afraid of them, but it's unnecessary, and I can't sell them for a good price.

The Far East is poor and backward, sparsely populated, vast and sparsely populated, and relatively speaking, materials are not scarce.

As long as you work hard, you basically can't starve to death, but if you want to get rich, it's also very difficult.

There is no benefit, so wild boars and other fierce beasts can't be sold at a good price, plus big cats are protected animals, so it's better not to touch them or not to touch them.

Many of the world's wealthy people who like to raise beasts of prey, most of them are more desperate for their lives, that is, they raise ordinary captive big cats, instead of such wild big cats.

After all, wild big cats are too scary for ordinary people to bear.

Along the way, through Mombato's fragmented words, Su Ming and the others have gained a lot of insight and have indeed learned a lot.

Following the trail of the big cat, everyone walked all the way to the deep mountains.

Not to mention, this area is really inaccessible, if it weren't for Mombato, maybe you really don't know how to walk.

This guide who spent 200,000 US dollars to please is worth it!

Suddenly, Mombato stopped suddenly, and everyone was startled, thinking that they had seen a big cat or some other beast.

"Ginseng!"

Hearing Minako's translation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Su Ming looked at Mombato speechlessly:

"Isn't it ginseng? Is it worth all the fuss? ”

But the latter didn't pay attention to Su Ming at all, but quickly took out a red rope from the package behind him and tied it, and then said:

"Hahaha, this Huaguo boss, you don't understand, look at this leaf, guess how old is the ginseng? This ginseng is three plants and four leaves, adding up to sixty leaves, which is a century-old ginseng!! ”

Hearing the other party's self-questioning and self-answering laughter, Su Ming was also stunned for a moment.

This is really pure wild ginseng, and it is a 100-year-old ginseng, if it is really a hundred years, then it is understandable that Mombato is so happy.

But despite this, for Su Ming, a century-old ginseng is nothing more than that.

Anything that money can buy is not precious.

However, this is what he saw with his own eyes, and it is more real.

"Hey, I don't think it's like ginseng." Song Peiyi raised her doubts, and Jiang Wen also echoed it.

The two are not strangers to ginseng, they have more or less heard of it, and they have also seen what real ginseng is like.

The plant in front of me has neither ginseng fruit nor so-called compound leaves, but sixty leaves growing one, but like a weed.

When Mombato heard Minako's translation, he was not angry, and smiled honestly:

"These 60 leaves come together really not like ginseng, like a mountain vegetable, like mountain celery. Also, like you said, it doesn't grow ginseng fruit.

But it is precisely because of these characteristics that it has not been discovered more than ten meters away, and if it had ginseng fruit, it would have been discovered a long time ago, and it is impossible to hold on to it for so many years.

That's why I'm even more sure that it's a 100-year-old ginseng, because more than 10 years ago, when I went hunting with my grandfather, I found a 100-year-old ginseng plant, and that strain was exactly the same as the current one.

And the place where we are now happens to be in the shade of the mountain, which is where ginseng grows.

I've been thinking about this all the way just now, and I'm paying attention to my surroundings, and I don't want to be discovered......"

When everyone heard this, they all immediately laughed, pointing to Mombato, thinking that he was honest and honest, but they didn't expect him to be so shrewd.

Su Ming laughed even more:

"Mombato, you dig and see if it's a century-old ginseng, if it is, then I'll buy it!"

When Mombato heard this, he shook his head and said:

"I'm definitely going to dig, but not now, but in a while, because I need to help you find the big cat right now. Of course, I will also abide by the rules of our mountain people, and those who see treasures have a share, and I will give you the share that belongs to others. ”

The head of a tendon is simply a little cute!

Principal Wang and the others all laughed, and Su Ming even said:

"Don't worry, we all have money, not bad for your ginseng plant, even if it's worth millions of dollars, it's not in our eyes.

We want to see how you dig ginseng now, purely hoping that you can satisfy our curiosity, and as for the big cat, it doesn't matter if it's a few days late. ”

This time into the mountain, Su Ming originally planned to play for a few days, which can be regarded as enjoying the scenery of the deep mountains and experiencing the feeling of the deep mountains of Siberia.

Just look at this long queue, everyone comes here not like they are catching big cats and cubs, but more like they are here to play.

Although there are only a few girls such as Minako in the team, it is true that the yang is prosperous and the yin is declining, and they are out on vacation.

"Really?" Mombato was immediately very happy, and after receiving Su Ming's affirmative reply, he immediately began to act.

Looking at his serious expression and extremely sacred movements, everyone sat on the sidelines, talking and laughing at him.

Lao Ye asked people to go hunting, and he was going to get a few hares or birds to satisfy his hunger.

What about the bodyguard team of more than 50 people, there are a lot of people, although they also carry dry food, but they can eat ready-made fresh food, who wants to eat dry food?

They are all modern people, and they have long eaten enough dry food in their backpacks, so they naturally prefer mountain delicacies such as hares.

The bodyguards who were injured yesterday have left the team, and there are currently more than fifty bodyguards left.

Although there are fewer people, there is no more burden.

It is much better for the bodyguards to return to the city for treatment than to suffer along with them.

"This is artemisia grass, which is used to smoke mosquitoes, and this is deer bones, which must be carefully dug from all sides to the middle.........

Digging ginseng is a sacred thing, as if a devout believer is stepping towards the holy place he yearns for, and there is no time for a little distraction.......

Oh, boss, please see, is the ginseng about to come out.... I now have to shake the soil gently, and I remember my grandfather saying that I had to be careful not to hurt any of its whiskers, and finally wrap the ginseng in moss.......

All of the above was taught to me by my grandfather, and it was passed down from generation to generation, just like my hunting skills, which I also passed on to me. ”

The crowd looked at Mombato, eating barbecue while watching him dig ginseng.

I feel that Mombato is not only digging ginseng, but also a kind of awe for the spirit of all things, an attitude of concentrating on doing things, and a spirit of life that is not afraid of hardship and tiredness.

However, the ginseng plant in Mombato's hand was indeed very large, and Jiang Wen and Song Peiyi were both shocked, obviously surprised.

I really saw the process of digging ginseng, and with Mombato's personal explanation, I had a deeper understanding of digging ginseng.

After all, no one knew that what looked like a wild vegetable just now was actually a century-old ginseng.

I got closer and smelled it, hey, don't say it, it's really ginseng.

Seeing the movements of Song Peiyi and Jiang Wen, Mombato smiled and didn't say anything, but his face was full of smug and happy smiles.

"Now that you're sure, Mombato, are you willing to sell me this ginseng?"

Su Ming asked casually, in fact, he didn't need ginseng, but there were old people at home, and his grandmother and grandfather were old.

What's more, the old man Jiang in the Spring and Autumn Medical Hall is a miracle doctor, and it is good to send ginseng as a gift.

He didn't think of this layer before, but now that he thinks of it, he can borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

After all, when Mr. Jiang treated Su Yu'er, there was no charge.

Donating to Hope Primary School or something, that was originally what Su Ming was doing, and it had nothing to do with Old Man Jiang.

"Sell, by the way, I should have it at home, do you want it?"

At the mention of money, Mombato's eyes lit up.

It's rare to meet a rich man, in fact, he has wanted to ask for a long time, but he was not familiar with Su Ming before, and just now because he wanted to dig ginseng, he didn't answer Su Ming immediately.

As a simple and honest hunter, Mombato doesn't have many eyes, and after getting along in the past two days, he feels that Su Ming is a very good friend.

Trustworthy.

"Okay, no problem, I'll buy it." Su Ming smiled, and continued: "After we go back, we will stay in the town for a few more days, and if your neighbors still have such mountain treasures, they will all take them out, and we will sweep them all at once." ”

When Mombato heard this, he was even happier and expressed his gratitude again and again.

For the mountain people, the mountain treasures are not valuable, and if they want to exchange money, they can only give it to those merchants, but they can't exchange much money.

Especially a family like him, who makes a living from hunting, is barely able to make ends meet.

Almost all of the prey from hunting is made into dry goods, because it can't be sold, it is unsalable, and I can't eat it myself, so I can only make it into dry goods for preservation.

Even if it is dry, it is difficult to wait until the price is high before selling it, and at the same time, you have to worry about preservation.

Therefore, his house is full of many things, which are basically mountain treasures.

"Now that the ginseng has been dug up, let's move on."

Su Ming spoke, and everyone naturally cleaned up, and then followed Mombato and continued to move forward.

In the following time, everyone has a clear understanding of Siberia.

It was cold at night, and I felt the cold inside the tent.

Only by finding the cave and sleeping in the cave will it be much better.

"Next, everyone should be careful, we should step into the range of big cats, according to my estimate, there should be more than one big cat here."

Hearing Mombato's words, Su Ming couldn't help but be surprised:

"Doesn't it mean that big cats act alone? How come there is more than one big cat? ”

Mombato explained that this is because during the breeding season, big male cats live with big female cats.

Or, when the big cat is a family, the big cat cubs are not fully grown up enough to hunt independently, so the big cat family will live together.

In addition, big cats basically go out to hunt for most of the month after hunting.

And in general, big cats hunt more herbivores that are not much of a threat, such as wild deer, goats, elk, small wild boars, and so on.

Then why don't you go out to hunt for half a month or even a month after hunting?

The first is that they are prone to injury when they hunt prey, which makes it more difficult to hunt next time, so they will eat very well every time they eat.

In addition, because the stomach of a big cat, when eating at a time, can swallow a goat weighing forty or fifty pounds, and it takes time to digest it to ensure that there is enough strength to support it during the next hunt.

Hearing Mombato's explanation, everyone suddenly realized.

It can be seen that he really knows the big cats very well, and he also knows all kinds of fierce beasts in the forest.

The crowd continued to move forward, but at this moment, the cry of a fierce beast suddenly came from ahead.

Mombato's face changed drastically, and he waved his hand to ask everyone to quickly half-squat and not continue to stand.

Then he crawled forward.

Everyone followed him, slowly moving forward, and then gradually saw a relatively open area in front of them, where several fierce beasts were fighting.

Two tigers and two black bears, as well as five wild boars, one of which was very large, a real behemoth.

The big wild boar looks like it has more than 800 catties, or even thousands of catties.

In the Northeast or Far East, wild boars can grow to a huge size of eight or nine hundred catties, and this kind of body type, even if it is a big cat or a black bear, is afraid when it sees it.

Therefore, in the northern folklore, there is an old saying that there are pigs, two bears and three tigers.

But it is clear that the tiger is the king of the forest, but the ranking is even lower, in fact, there is a saying in this.

For one, this ranking is a measure of the level of threat to humanity. The tiger, also known as the Northeast cat, is the king of the forest, but it is rarely encountered.

But wild boars are not the same as bears, they are more numerous and more common, especially wild boars, which used to come down the mountain to steal farmers' crops.

Hundreds of pounds of wild boars rushed towards humans, and asked if you were afraid?

Secondly, this ranking is also a jealousy of each other.

We all know that wild boars have very sharp tusks, which in addition to making humans fearful, many animals will be afraid of wild boars, wild boars can be said to be a species that is rarely attacked by other animals in the animal kingdom.

At this moment, the state ahead is a melee between the big cat, the wild boar and the bear.

Because in addition to the giant boar, the remaining four wild boars are very small, and they seem to be about 100 catties.

For the two big cats and black bears who have been hungry for nearly a month, even if there are giant wild boars present, today no matter what, they will have to get two little wild boars back to eat.

What's more, this time the tiger and the black bear joined forces to hunt together, so the odds are greater.

It's just that the situation at the scene is very tragic, and the big cat and the black bear also fight from time to time, mainly because both sides want prey.

The combat effectiveness of the black bear is actually not as good as that of the tiger, but when the black bear fights, it still knows how to unite and cooperate.

Solidarity and cooperation are the shortcomings of big cats, after all, they are used to fighting alone.

The two big cats, one male and one female, finally avoided the collision of the wild boar king, but they couldn't avoid the black bear's palm.

The three-way scuffle can be said to be a mess.

Mombato was overjoyed and said to Su Ming: "Boss, do you want us to go to the big cat's cave and take the cubs away at this time?" ”

The latter was stunned, can you still do this?

"Do you know where the big cat's burrow is?"

"Does that need to be said?" Mombato was a little anxious, his tone and words were wrong, and he was glared at by Minako's beautiful eyes, and then he smiled and said again:

"Actually, it's simple, the big cats are both dispatched, and they are fighting with black bears and wild boars, so it must be because it is not far from the cave, so it will be like this, otherwise it will basically not be two big cats dispatched together."

After listening to the explanation, Su Ming said:

"In that case, then I'll send someone to come with you and bring the cub back as soon as possible, I'll be here to watch."

Uh, this, beast wars, what's there to see?